On her first day of school, Sofia – a Brazilian teenager who has recently arrived in London – is bullied by a group of British students. Homesick and alienated from the world around her, she meets Lauren, a British-Nigerian teenager who shows her Sun Rah, a world entirely of her own making in a nearby park, where they make their home together.
Bia Pankararu, a young indigenous health worker, is raising funds for the reconstruction of the school in her village, which was destroyed during an arson attack on the night of the run-off 2018 presidential elections. Paula, a journalist from Rio, arrives at the village to report on the arson attacks.
Nelson, a skeptical and disillusioned journalist, is having strange experiences. The old scientist who lives in his building tries to convince him that these events are linked to an old study of time travel. Nelson's wife Maria receives a logbook that reveals a timeless communication between them.